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The district was already under state leadership but the schools could still be closed. [43] As of the 2023-2024 school year, all three campuses are now run by Third Future Schools, which was founded by Houston ISD's state-appointed superintendent Mike Miles. [44] [45]
Forest Brook Middle School became a part of HISD during the merger with the North Forest Independent School District on July 1, 2013. [20] When HISD assumed control, the facilities were in a damaged state, 30-40% of students were habitually late to school, and 75-80% of students performed below grade level.
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas, and the eighth-largest in the United States. [3] Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and insular municipalities in addition to some unincorporated areas.
The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. The mascot of Northside is the Panther. [3] The school also has a Hotel and Restaurant Management magnet program. The HISD board voted to give the school its current name in 2016. [4]
The school serves grades 9-12 and is part of the Houston Independent School District. [5] It is the only High School Vanguard Program in HISD, meaning that all students are labelled as gifted and talented by testing and the school has students take all Advanced Placement core classes as part of its curriculum.
The school attracts students from charter schools, private schools, and home schooling as well as from other Houston ISD middle schools. The most recent demographic report available lists the school's demographics as 3.3% Asian, 24.1% African American, 44% Hispanic, 25.4% White, 3.2% other. The school mirrors the city demographics well.
In 2007, a Johns Hopkins University study commissioned by the Associated Press cited Scarborough as a "second rate school [6] In 2008 the school had a per student cost of $5,442, with 890 students attending the school. [7] In 2014 the district scheduled the elimination of the Scarborough architecture program for the 2015-2016 school year. [8]
YES Prep Eisenhower opened in the 2016–2017 school year with only 9th graders. They added 10th graders in the 2017–2018 school year, 11th graders in the 2018–2019 school year, and 12th graders in the 2019–2020 school year where Class of 2020 was the first graduation. YES Prep Hoffman dissolved in 2022.